LTA should seriously reduce the number of heavy and commercial vehicles and also stop the growth of these vehicles until majority of them are due for de-registration! Stop making us car and bike owners suffer! We need a car or bike because its too time consuming to travel around Singapore!

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"Sad" and "embarrassing" do not at all describe the situation accurately. The incident could have been tragic, with lives lost. We know that the trains run on rails that carry electricity. Water and electricity don't mix without causing a disaster.

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For a young foreign student who was all excited to be given the chance to study at the National University of Singapore (NUS), it was certainly a tragedy that undergraduate Ms Jung Haelin had to end up falling to her death (Undergrad falls to death after being locked out; November 3, 2017, The Straits Times).

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The optimal train of 12 - 16 carriages can carry more than 1000 commuters from point A to point B for an average distance of 30km in less than 30 minutes. Whereas, a bus can only carry up to 80 people even if it's double decker. Do your math and you will know that buses are not feasible nor efficient to transport commuters from one part of the island to another.

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26 year-old Filipino loanshark runner Sittaraman Sam Kris Carbonel has been jailed 16 months and will face 6 lashes of the cane after he was convicted of 2 counts of harassment under the Moneylenders Act and one unrelated charge of criminal intimidation.